Awning-socket.



J. KENNEDY.

AWNING SOCKET.

APPLICATION rmm APR. 8, 1908.

926, 1 96. Patented June 29, 1909.

gilgo/eay g age JOSEPH KENNEDY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

AWNING-SOCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 29, 1909.

Application filed April 8, 1908. Serial No. 425,865.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn KENNEDY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Awning-Sockets, of which the following is a specification accompanied by drawings.

This invention relates to awning sockets, although the articles of manufacture constructed in accordance with this invention may be used in any connection in which they are found applicable and not necessarily in connection with awnings.

The objects of the invention are to improve upon the construction of sockets, and similar devices for awnings and other uses, and do away with the necessity of cutting screw threads in such sockets to render them suitable for use.

Heretofore, awning rods, for instance, have been threaded onto sockets, and when said sockets are sold in quantities without screw threaded portions the jobber or buyer is obliged to have the screw threads out, which is particularly inconvenient and expensive, especially in those cases where the job ber does not have the immediate facilities for doing such work.

According to this invention the sockets are provided with means whereby the rods or other devices may be secured thereto by swaging the ends of the rods, thus obviating the use of screw threads.

The invention consists of means for carrying out the above objects, substantially as hereinafter described and claimed in this specification, and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of one form of socket embodying the invention; Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same Fig. 3 is a plan View of the same with the rod removed; Fig. 4 is a side elevation of another form of awning socket; Fig. 5 is an edge elevation of Fig. 4; Fig. 6 is a side elevation of a double socket or coupling; Fig. 7 is an edge elevation of Fig. 6; and Fig. 8 is a plan view.

Referring to the drawings, three forms of sockets are shown, to illustrate the invention, namely, a socket in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, another socket in Figs. 4 and 5, and a double socket or coupling in Figs. 6, 7 and 8, although the invention may be embodied in many other varying forms.

In Figs. 1, 2 and 3 the awning socket comprises a body A and an extension or shank integral therewith in the form of an eye B constituting a semi-ing or attaching member. The body A is provided with an inwardly flaring socket hole E. The end of the body A opposite the attaching member B forms a ring or rim 0 and opposite sides of the body A above said rim C are cut away at D in the same plane with the lateral enlargement of the said socket hole whereby the inner enlarged end of the flaring socket hole is exposed laterally. A stiff awning rod G is inserted in the inwardly flaring socket hole E through the open end thereof and the inner end of the rod so inserted is exposed through the lateral recesses formed by the cut away portions D. Through this exposure the inner end of said rod G is swaged or flattened laterally by pressure exerted at right angles to the lateral enlargement of said socket holes, as shown in Fig. 1. This swaging may be performed by any suitable means, preferably by means of a special swaging tool, and the said end F is thereby enlarged laterally in a direction at right angles to the pressure brought upon the rod through the lateral recesses aforesaid.

In Figs. 4; and 5 the body portion A of the awning socket is provided with a bend or o'll'set II and the securing member or attaching shank I of said socket is provided with suitable apertures J to enable the socket to be secured to a suitable support. The body is of otherwise similar construction to that shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, being provided with an inwardly flaring socket hole E, and lateral recesses at right angles to the spread of said socket hole and communicating therewith. These figures also show a rod G inserted in the socket hole and swaged therein at its inner end F, said swaged end being exposed by the cut away portions or side recesses.

In Figs. 6, 7 and S the invention is shown as embodied in a double socket or coupling, which in this instance is represented as constructed from a hollow cylinder. Portions of the opposite sides of the cylinder are cut away at l), leaving the rim portions C at opposite ends of the double socket, said rim portions being connected by the body portions K. As shown in F (3 the interior bore of the body portions K is flared inwardly as shown at L from opposite ends of the socket. These inwardly flared portions constitute the socket hole of the double awning socket. Two rods 0 are inserted through the rim portions C at the opposite ends of the double awning socket into the inwardly flared socket hole thereof, the ends of said rods meeting at the swaged part of said socket hole. Then by any suitable swaging tool or means applied through the lateral openings or cut away portions D, the adjacent or meeting ends of said rods are swaged into the flared portions of said socket holes and thereby locked into rigid connection with the double socket as shown in Fig. 6.

I claim and desire to obtain by Letters Patent the following:

1. An awning socket comprising a body F having an integral extension adapted to serve as a securing member, said body being provided with an inwardly flaring socket hole and having the sides cut away in planes intersecting the flaring portions of the hole, thus forming lateral recesses communicating with said socket hole, through which lateral recesses a rod may be swaged into the flaring portion of said socket hole.

2. An awning socket comprising a body provided with inwardly flaring socket holes at each end and having the sides cut away in planes intersecting the flaring portions of said socket holes, thus forming lateral recesses communicating with said socket holes, through which lateral recesses rods may be swaged into the flaring portions of said socket holes.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH KENNEDY.

Witnesses I. B. MOORE, Enw. A. STULz. 

